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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: "Musa Ahmed" <musa_ahmed@musahmedchambers.org>
Reply-To: musahmed7@myway.com
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:18:11 +0000
Subject: YOUR URGENT ASSISTANT NEEDED!!!

HELLO,

THIS IS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.

 My name is MR. MUSA AHMED, I am the HEAD OF FOREIGN BANKING OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT (CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA) and the present Fund/Investment manager of the late wife of Nigeria Head Of State Chief Mrs STELLA OBASANJO who died in a Spanish Hospital on the 23/october/2005 after a brief ilness.

 

CONSEQUENT to the breaking news of the DEATH of her Excellency Chief Mrs Stella Obasanjo, I and my colleague in charge of her Foreign Fund Investment Account have decided to make this secreet and confidential contact to you for your help and assistance toTRANSFER the Sum of $22 million USD(Twenty Two Million United State Dollars).

 

 From her Investment Portfolio of over $65million USD deposited in a domiciliary account in treasury liquid cash form  and managed by me and my colleague Mr. JOHN SUNDAY into a Foreign Bank Account that will be provided to us by you and all other Foriegn Logistics that we might need to successfully Transfer this FUND.

 

This sincere piece of information/proposal you have just read is totally risk free and must be kept strictly confidential. The recipient of this information shall treat the information as the proprietory and confidential information of the disclosing party. You shall not disclose the information contained herein to any other person or entity except as authorized by us. Please hold this proposal in strict confidence.

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This is VERY VERY important for us.

 

I will be coming over to your country as soon as the confirmation of the lodgement of this money into a safe nominated Bank Account .

 

We will be offering you 20% of this amount  for your help/assistance while 5% will be set aside for any unforseen expenses that we might incure from both end in the course of this transaction.

 

Note that this offer will be made a binding OATH of agreement by a competent Court of LAW and to be handled by a competent LAWYER in order to avoid any britch of TRUST.

 

Please feel free to contact me for more discussion on details and modalities.

 

Thanks and God bless you.

FROM: MR.MUSA AHMED and MR JOHN SUNDAY.


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